I came across this post from one of the authors of Iolokus:
"We reversed the gender roles even more than they had been on the show with a highly masculinized Scully, and a rather effeminate Mulder. If you notice, Scully initiates all the violence, and Mulder initiates any attempt at emotional connection. It’s no wonder that in the first action scene she crawls through an air duct (vagina) with a rifle (penis) to shoot (penetrate) Bill who has taken the children hostage while Mulder tries to negotiate (nurture).... In the matter of the various Mulder clones, we were playing with the meta idea that every writer has a different vision of Mulder – gay Mulder, homicidal maniac Mulder, tough Mulder, whore Mulder, and crazy Mulder. Hence the clones."
I hadn't noticed that there was symbolism in this story. I remember in high school English classes, I was frustrated by teachers who would ask questions such as "what does this tree represent?" I always thought 'maybe it's just a freakin' tree?' I was probably wrong, and I wonder how many other symbols with subtext are scattered throughout this particular story. Did anyone else find any?
Also, why do you think the authors had Scully sleep with Marita? Maybe to get close to Mulder in a different way? To try to see something from his perspective?
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Date: 2015-10-23 02:36 am (UTC)"We reversed the gender roles even more than they had been on the show with a highly masculinized Scully, and a rather effeminate Mulder. If you notice, Scully initiates all the violence, and Mulder initiates any attempt at emotional connection. It’s no wonder that in the first action scene she crawls through an air duct (vagina) with a rifle (penis) to shoot (penetrate) Bill who has taken the children hostage while Mulder tries to negotiate (nurture)....
In the matter of the various Mulder clones, we were playing with the meta idea that every writer has a different vision of Mulder – gay Mulder, homicidal maniac Mulder, tough Mulder, whore Mulder, and crazy Mulder. Hence the clones."
I hadn't noticed that there was symbolism in this story. I remember in high school English classes, I was frustrated by teachers who would ask questions such as "what does this tree represent?" I always thought 'maybe it's just a freakin' tree?' I was probably wrong, and I wonder how many other symbols with subtext are scattered throughout this particular story. Did anyone else find any?
Also, why do you think the authors had Scully sleep with Marita? Maybe to get close to Mulder in a different way? To try to see something from his perspective?